John bastow and william woodhead



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SPINNING AND DOUBLING MACHINE. I No. 249,289. Y I Patented Nov. 8,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BASTOW AND WILLIAM WOODHEAD, OF HALIFAX, COUNTY OF YORK,

- ENGLAND.

SPINNING AND DOUBLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,289, dated November8, 1881,

Application filed March 30, 1880. (ModeL) Patented in England September29, 1879.

To all whom it-may'concem Be it known that we, JOHN BASTOW and WILLIAMWOODHEAD, of Halifax, in the county of York,England, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Spinning and Doubling Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention consists in combining a flier having a bridge attachmentadapted to turn, and provided with a downwardly-pointingspindle with afixed stud or spindle and bobbin collar, as hereinafter described.

For a better understanding of the invention, we refer to theaccompanying drawings, form in g part of this specification, and whereinFigure 1 is an elevation of such portions of spinning and doublingmachinery as contain our improvements. Fig.2 is a vertical section online a: m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 y of Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

0b is the fixed stud or spindle a, the stationary collar attached to thesame, upon which the spinning-bobbin b is held.

0 is the loose-running pulley, forming, with.

the wings or rods 0 e, the flier, which is fitted with the bridgeattachment cl, forming a part e is the traveler, and f the ring,attached in any suitable manner to the traversing bar.

g is the guide for the yarn comingfrom the feed-rollers.

h is the small curved tension-plane. which is capable of being slidtoward or away from the collar of the bobbin, as more or less drag isrequired. In lieu of such tension-p1ate,a small spring may be used.Motion is given to the flier by means of a band passing around the,

grooved portion of the loose-running pulley, in the usual manner. 7

Having thus described our invention, we

Patent- In aspinningand doubling machine, thecombination, with the fixedstud or spindle a a and the fixed collar or, adapted to carry thebobbin, of the flier c 0, having the bridge attachmentcl,carryingthedown wardly-pointingspindle d, and adapted to turn therein, all asdescribed.

The above specification signed by us this 4th day of December, 1879.

45 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters

